The Padma Purāṇa Part I

First Edition: Delhi, 1988

Translated and Annotated by Dr. N. A. Deshpande

Motilal Banarsidass

This is the first part of the Padma Purāṇa in English translation and the thirty-ninth volume in the series on Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology. It comprises the first thirty-three chapters of the first section called Sṛṣṭikhaṇḍa or the Section on Creation of the Purāṇa which is very huge in size. This Purāṇa, as it appears in the Veṅkaṭeśvara edition which this translation follows, consists of seven big sections or Khaṇḍas, namely, Sṛṣṭi, Bhūmi, Svarga, Brahma, Pātāla, Uttara and Kriyāyogasāra and is said to contain 55000 verses, though the actual number is much less.